Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watcing you. --Robert Fulghum
A person's a person, no matter how small. --Dr. Seuss

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Snow Day! I mean, Snow Week.

Well, our snow day ended up being a snow week due to the ice dump all over poor Dallas. We just don't know what to do with all that ice here... Then, I have been sick all week to boot so I didn't make the snow week super fun for the kids, but it was really nice to be home.

Sunday: Sick, clammy, chills, dizzy almost fainted during Mass and had to leave early. While I laid in bed the rest of the day, Daddy had to punt on studying and take the kids to the school art show and to violin. All went okay.

Monday: I thought I felt good until during carpool I passed the house I was supposed to pull up in because I was so spacey. I came home after drop off and never left the bed again, except to open the door for the girls after school - my friend brought them home.

Tuesday: Snow Day! Kids got to play outside, we made snow ice cream and I stayed in bed the majority of the day. Kitchen sink pipes froze, dishwasher and the downstairs toilet. No bueno.

Wednesday: Another snow day. Still felt super sick, laid in bed all day. Stan went 1905 on us and took hot water from the sink in the powder bath and hand washed dishes in the sink. I almost passed out when I walked downstairs the next day and saw the clean sink. Really impressive.

Thursday: Snow day #3 and I woke up feeling goodish. Actually made the kids breakfast (with pants, jammies, daddies sweatshirt and UGH boots of course). Cleaned a bit, paid some bills and pulled the shades and watched movies in bed with the kids. Daddy had to work. It's nice having the kids home. They are sewing, fighting, playing, dressing up, arguing... It's all good stuff.

Friday: So the plan for snowday #4: 1. Bathe 2. Make homemade valentines 3. Nurse sick son who I infected b/c he still loves to sleep with mommy and daddy (working on that before baby #4 comes - no real progress, yet....) ;) He such a snuggle buggler.

Here is a picture from my friend. While everyone around seems to be going stir crazy, I've enjoyed just being home all week. But, I am dreaming of my shades, tank tops, lucy skirts and my jcrew flip-flops to be sure... Looking forward to having running water again.... Maybe Saturday.

Mama Lulu

I'll be updating things out here on occasion. Family life can be so funny, I have to capture it somehow. Scrap booking one day, hopefully. In the meantime...

Why Lulu ? ? ?

Farside anyone?
Mrs. O'Leary's ill fated cow; her name was Lulu.
While she happily moseyed along in the pasture, she got her head stuck in a bucket. Her foot stuck in the fence. She tripped over a rock. Stan has called me Lulu for a looong time. Who knew how fitting it was when it started!?

Who's yer Daddy?

Man of the haas. His biggest goal in life is to become a crotchety old man and shake a stick at little kids as they walk by... :-) And, pass out quarters....

Mary and baby Jesus

Catholicism

Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom." -- St. Toribio

Not 100 in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is. -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. –C.S. Lewis

Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly. -- St. Ignatius Loyola

To the pure all things are pure, but to the impure nothing is pure” (Ti 1:15).

How can anyone say this is not a child? Remember unborn babies in your prayers.

Parenthood

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. --Bill Cosby

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. --Haim Ginnott

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. --Carl Sandburg

Can we have a moment of silence for the honorable President Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born

A taste of some Maria Montessori's Wisdom

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

We must help the child to liberate himself from his defects without making him feel his weakness.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful, spontaneous activity.

He who is served is limited in his independence

These words reveal the child's inner needs: "Help me to do it alone."

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing.